{"id":72699,"date":"2023-01-18T12:40:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T10:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=72699"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:49:23","slug":"ukrainian-minister-aims-to-be-paid-in-e-hryvnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ukrainian-minister-aims-to-be-paid-in-e-hryvnia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian minister aims to be paid in e-hryvnia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, plans to become one of the first users of the electronic hryvnia. At the World Economic Forum, he <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/events\/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023\/sessions\/press-conference-mykhailo-fedorov\\\">\u0437\u0430\u044f\u0432\u0438\u043b<\/a> that he intends to receive his salary in it.<\/p>\n<p>Fedorov said that he had already seen a pilot of the electronic hryvnia. He added that the ministry is cooperating on this issue with <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-the-stellar-blockchain-and-the-xlm-cryptocurrency\">Stellar<\/a> and with one of the private banks.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to refer to Tascombank, which recently published <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tascombank-runs-pilot-of-electronic-money-based-on-stellar\">testing results<\/a> for the issuance of electronic money on the Stellar network.<\/p>\n<p>According to the minister, the National Bank of Ukraine is preparing &#8216;large-scale pilots&#8217; using the electronic hryvnia in 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cI plan to become the first tester of the electronic hryvnia and start receiving a salary in it,\u201d said the head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fedorov added that authorities are actively working on the legalisation of the cryptocurrency market in Ukraine:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cWe are not waiting for the end of the war. We are doing the digital transformation of the state right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported on proposed changes to the law \u201cOn Virtual Assets\u201d and the introduction of taxation on cryptocurrency transactions in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, plans to become one of the first users of the electronic hryvnia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1744,16],"class_list":["post-72699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-digital-hryvnia","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72701,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72699\/revisions\/72701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}